Careers
PicScout is hiring!
We are interested in hiring the best candidates to accompany us on our exciting journey and participate in our rapid growth. PicScout employees are young at heart, ambitious, and thrive in a dynamic environment. Please review the following Career Opportunities:
Positions in Israel
Positions in the US
Senior C# developer (Position #101)
Location: Herzeliya, Israel
Job Description:
Development of Dot-Net applications and websites as a member of an R&D team.
Mandatory qualifications:
- 5+ years experience with C# (including 2+ years on .Net2 and higher)
- BA/BSc in Computer Science or graduate of Mamram or similar unit
- Experience with:
- client-side and server-side development
- developing of WebServices, WCF services and LINQ
- ASP.NET 2.0 (and higher), RIA
- scalability, performance, load, high availability
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Good English
- Organized, detail-oriented
- Attention to quality
- Excellent interpersonal skills, team player
- Ability to learn & work both independently and in team-work
- Self-motivated, hard worker
Non-mandatory qualifications (advantage):
- Algorithmic experience (Image Processing – big advantage)
- Experience with:
- client-side development: D\HTML, JavaScript, AJAX (big advantage)
- CSS, YUI, jQuery
- WPF or Silverlight (XAML)
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Experienced C# developer (Position #100)
Location: Herzeliya, Israel
Job Description:
Design and implementation of complex Dot-Net applications and websites as a member of an R&D team.
Mandatory qualifications:
- 2-4 years experience with C# in Server Side
- BA/BSc in Computer Science or graduate of Mamram or similar unit
- Experience with developing in C# of:
- Smart Clients (WinForms\WPF)
- developing of WebServices, WCF services
- scalability, performance, load, high availability
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008
- Good English
Non-mandatory qualifications (advantage):
- xUnit Frameworks (NUnit, Moq and etc..) – big advantage
- ASP.NET 2.0 and higher
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Quality Control Team Member (Position #500)
Location: Herzeliya, Israel
Job Description:
The Operations department is looking for a serious and committed full-time employee, to work in a computerized working environment searching on internet data engines.
Mandatory qualifications:
- Basic computer skills and experience in a computerized environment - a complete Internet and Office knowledge
- Willingness to learn and use new computer applications
- Fluent English - a wide vocabulary. Other languages (German, French, Spanish and others) - an advantage
- Familiarity with search methods on Search Engines
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Director of Key Account Management
Location: Los Gatos, CA, USA
Job Description:
The Director of Key Account Management’s primary responsibility will be to work directly with the largest accounts as well as supervise, train and lead a two-person junior account management team. They will be focused on driving the company’s revenue growth for our core business - through working with our global clients to enhance their overall revenue recapture through non-legitimate image usage online. In the last quarter, the company more than doubled its number of clients – so efficient and effective on-boarding will be a major initial focus, followed by ensuring on-going success.
This position will report to the VP of Global Marketing and Business Development and be a key member of the team and expected to contribute in many areas, such as overseeing relationships with all external stakeholders and playing a key role in aligning internal and external resources. They will personally assume Key Account Management responsibility for two-four key clients.
Responsibilities:
- Improve client performance with their current territories, as well as evaluate and proactively improve their financial and productivity performance through a variety of means, including catalogue updating, territory expansion, existing territory process flows and facilitation of internal and external collection processes
- Deliver specific revenue targets and manage additional performance measures related to account management and effectively use account management software systems
- Take current client best-practices and create training and guidance materials that will be rolled out to your team to improve the overall performance for all Clients
- Institute monthly client status calls (in addition to more frequent conversations) and work with your team to create a standard process for these reviews and for account management in general
- Work with the internal team to enhance and improve our customer facing account management software system and work to create proper training and guidance material
- Work closely with our Legal Partners to ensure our clients understand the benefits and opportunities of using an outside third party to pursue infringements. For clients using Legal Partners you will evaluate their effectiveness. If needed, you may be called upon to help establish additional legal partners
- Lead the negotiations for contract renewals for existing key clients and oversee renewals of your account managers. While the majority of the market uses our services, you will have the opportunity to sign on new boutique clients
Requirements:
- Experience building outstanding relationships with your B2B clients where they view you as an extension of their team – you help make them better – and you help them improve their overall financial and operational performance
- Managed Key Accounts that were a strategic imperative for your company
- Experience managing account managers or sales teams
- Proven track record in over-achieving budgeted revenue forecasts – there is plenty of growth room
- Robust knowledge of Salesforce and can personally run analysis, produce reports, graphs, and effectively communicate strategic and operational conclusions
- Experience handling multiple projects, multi-tasking efficiently and meeting deadlines
- Extremely responsive and efficient with email communications (direct, to the point – no punting)
- Strong analytical skills – strategic thinking, as well as reporting and analysis
- Takes pride in really learning your products, technology, your customers, prospects and competitors
- BS/BA required
- 5-7 years of sales/account management experience
- Travel will be required – up to 20% time – including international
To Apply:
Only legitimately qualified candidates should apply. To facilitate review and response to all qualified applications – please provide the following in order to be considered for the position:
1) Write a cover letter with a maximum of 100 words that would convince us why we MUST talk with you
2) Provide an attachment to the letter that covers:
a. An example of how you improved the performance of an existing customer
b. How you have motivated sales/account managers who have reported to you
3) Attach your resume
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Senior Brand Manager
Location: Los Gatos, CA, USA
Job Description:
The Senior Brand Manager’s primary responsibility will be to lead the marketing plan development, management and execution elements for the ImageIRC™ services platform and the two product lines: ImageExchange™ and ImageTracker™. The majority of time will be spent on the overarching services platform and the company’s newest product line – the ImageExchange. This person will lead the efforts to obtain widespread adoption of an add-on within a defined community of highly targeted users. You will also oversee the marketing positioning and sales tools for our core product – ImageTracker – and our partner program.
This position reports to the VP of Global Marketing and Business Development and requires active involvement in conversations with the core vision team (CEO, VP Marketing & Business Development and Head of Product). This position will be part of a team that includes PR, Social Media and Field Marketing, Business Development and Key Account Management.
The Senior Brand Manager will be a key member of the team and expected to contribute in many areas, such as driving the long-term vision for marketplace awareness for the company’s role in ensuring “Every Image Gets Its Credit” through the adoption of a technical standard for image credit that allows for monetization Senior Brand will drive execution of “Every Image Gets Its Credit” through a marketing plan that drives user adoption of a browser plug-in (currently available for Firefox, but being expanded to other browsers) among several market segments, including, creative professionals, corporate communications, creative commons communities and ultimately the long-tail of end users. Business development team members are also working to have the plug-in natively a part of platforms and applications.
Responsibilities:
- Document and execute our “go to market” strategy for each target audience and provide the business rational and revenue justification for each.
- Establish and continuously evolve the brand strategy across key channels to drive user adoption, and continuously improve the overall brand perception across all segments (ImageIRC, ImageExchange and ImageTracker and their sub-segments).
- Evaluate both traditional and online marketing opportunities and recommend the execution path to secure widespread adoption of the add-on among core user groups. This includes advertising, branding, promotion, PR, strategic partnerships, marketing analytics and testing (including running our beta test).
- Deliver user adoption, engagement, retention and viral promotion. This will include media buying activities. You will evaluate and recommend marketing investment strategies across an array of mediums (associations, events, grassroots/guerilla, online advertising, promotions, contests, etc.) and constantly measure ROI and optimize spend across all channels.
- Serve as an internal subject matter expert for all add-on acquisition channels, including SEO/SEM, display advertising, email marketing, affiliate marketing, and online distribution partnerships. You will devise a search marketing strategy and recommend/implement new ideas.
- Evaluate the competitive landscape and maintain the brand’s leadership stance.
- Work closely with the Head of Product, using your outstanding marketing and user understanding, to identify product enhancement and feature set – based upon benefit value proposition to the market, user, and/or company positioning as the standard for image credit.
- Directly manage one to two team members and work closely with your peers.
Requirements:
- 5-7 years marketing experience with 3+ years experience leading online marketing campaigns
- Strong online consumer/end user marketing experience
- Hands on knowledge of best practices in SEM, SEO, display, email acquisition, and affiliate marketing
- Proven track-record of delivering qualified traffic and working with strong brands, especially within the Web 2.0 and Social Media arena
- Proven ability to drive business insights through data analysis and provide actionable recommendations for innovation in marketing strategy
- Excellent strategic thinking, analytic, finance, leadership, communication and project execution skills – Very proficient in Excel
- Possess a unique balance of disciplined strategic thinking, creative passion and understanding that you must be hands on
- An assertive, effective communicator with a take charge attitude
- Excellent leadership skills and ability to directly communicate and participate in cross-functional teams
- Proved track record of influence, action and results
- An excellent multi-tasker, extremely detail-oriented and able to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment characterized by growth and change
- Have managed/lead others (plus)
- BS/BA (MBA a plus)
- Travel will be required – up to 15% time – may include some international
To Apply:
Only legitimately qualified candidates should apply. To facilitate review and response to all qualified applications – please provide the following in order to be considered for the position:
1) Write a cover letter with a maximum of 100 words describing why we should interview you for the position
2) Provide an attachment to the letter that covers:
a. An example Twitter Post to capture our attention to interview you
b. A paragraph about a successful Customer Acquisition program you created and/or executed
3) Attach your resume
SUBMIT REQUESTED INFORMATION TO:
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Social Media & Field Marketing Manager
Location: Los Gatos, CA, USA
If your smartphone never leaves your side, if you love commenting and engaging with social networks, if you’re the one who is always connected and if you get hyped about interacting with people – getting them excited about a very cool tool that they want – let’s talk…We’re looking for that star who wants to grow a community of users for PicScout’s ImageExchange™ – a tool that enables every image to get credit – which monetizes images on the web.
Job Description:
You will run our very dynamic execution efforts for our 2010 social media and field marketing activities.
You will be part of the strategic conversation about the media and field strategy and this includes social media, digital content distribution, blogger outreach and event marketing.
You will become part of the conversation at multiple levels – you will follow and track trends, you will be the go-to person for being up to speed on the latest trends and opportunities…
If you want to have a meaningful role in a company that is profitable, privately held and growing quickly – here’s your opportunity.
You will write, engage in the conversation and post messaging based upon overall marketing plans. You will conduct surveys and you will create field-marketing events (domestically, and possibly internationally). You will use a myriad of external social sites, including: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other community sites, blogs and apps.
Of course – you’ll need to be very familiar with Google Analytics and other benchmarking and analytics programs to measure if our social media program is working and what needs improving…if you already have this experience, it’s a real bonus otherwise, you’ll need to demonstrate an aptitude for analysis and that you are a quick study and user.
Skills:
Driven, Positive, can-do attitude and sense of humor are required – realizing that Social Media outreach is not a 9-5 job…
You can demonstrate that you already use and are familiar with social media tools, platforms and products.
2-3 years experience building social media programs that achieved significant results through clever direct marketing and innovative solutions.
Strong project management, interpersonal, communication and collaboration skills.
To Apply:
Only legitimately qualified candidates who can demonstrate examples of previously achieved results in the activities outlined in the Job Description should apply. To facilitate review and response to all qualified applications – please provide the following in order to be considered for the position:
1) Write an Example Blog Post of 100 words or less that would convince us why we MUST talk with you
2) Compose a Tweet that ties in our business and why we should talk with you
3) Attach your resume
SUBMIT REQUESTED INFORMATION TO:
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We offer you a supportive environment with creative freedom. If you are a team member who likes to work with new technologies, please send your CV and any other relevant information to:
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We look forward to hearing from you!